Earl Norman

The Earl Norman books are becoming extremely rare, and publishers don’t seem to be interested in reprinting the series. The only way some of us may ever have all the stories is for collectors to scan and type the stories into PDF to swap with other collectors. I have already completed PDFs of HANG ME IN HONG KONG and KILL ME IN ROPPONGI. I am working on KILL ME IN YOKOSUKA. If other collectors would do the same for some of the other books, we could eventually have PDFs of all ten books. Why not help? I can be contacted at fadingshadows40@gmail.com

Friday, May 30, 2014

Curt Stone #2 The Eurasian Virgins

Stone #2: “The Eurasian Virgins” by Jack Seward. An
American heiress, who wants him to find her brother’s out-of-wedlock daughter,
contacts Curt Stone. Gail Owen wasn’t aware of the child until her parents
died. The girl, Rose Hasegawa, is now 16, and has been taken by a Japanese gang
working the flesh market for young virgins. Stone puts his Far East
Investigations to work on the case, and he personally looks for the girl. A
good story, but the author tries to teach the reader the Japanese language and
culture, often including the English interpretation after the Japanese
dialogue, slowing the pace of the story drastically. This would be okay if the
reader was learning Japanese, but isn’t a good idea for a fiction novel.
Unfortunately, there is very little action in this novel. Published during the
same period as Earl Norman’s Burns Bannion, it lacked the fun and karate action
that Bannion brought the reader. Still, it is a good plot.